Win7. Odd opening of pdf files found on links

I use Acrobat 8 Pro.
If I do a Google search and find a link that has a pdf as part of it, clicking on the link brings up Acrobat Pro, which produces a message that it cannot use the Reader in my browser, FireFox. When I close Pro, the pdf appears in FireFox. Is this pre-appearance controllable. That is, can I get rid of it?

I removed Reader 9, but get the same msg when it tries to bring up Pro. I can get the pdf though.
I'm beginning to think this is a problem with Thunderbird, Mozilla mailer, and will check out that angle. I've one occassion where an e-mail with a file attached was not received by recipient each of three times I sent it. On another occassion, someone sent me a pdf three times, and I never got the attachment.
I've had Win 7 since mid-Dec, after using XP for years, and found it to be quite a good improvement, especially the search. However, there's so much of a change that the new features can be baffling. Even search was that way at first. In some respects, it still is. I have a book on Win 7 that is quite hefty, but really doesn't do Win 7 justice in my view. For example, search. As far as I can tell, it doesn't talk about searches formed like filename:abc*.txt date: > 07/01/2010. I do believe there were, and still may be, web videos that described how to use many features.
What I am not happy with is that MS now has "social" forums for getting answers. I'm not quite sure sometimes if I'm getting responses from MVPs or someone else. If there are MVPs, they do not pounce on support as do the ones in the now vanishing MS XP Newsgroups. The word social hardly seems like a good description for them. I'd much prefer even Help. Social. Ugh.

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